After the fall of Little Rock in September 1863, a pro-Union government was established in Federally occupied Arkansas, under Isaac Murphy.
The prisoners were taken from where they were being detained by members of Company G, 8th Regiment Missouri Volunteer Cavalry, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Elias Briggs Baldwin, and all were shot, with eight being killed.
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From 1837 to 1838, Murphy ran the original government land lines for Franklin County, Arkansas.
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On November 30, 1844, the noted Indian Missionary Cephas Washburn, along with Murphy and other prominent individuals, secured a charter for a college known as the Far West Seminary.
The award is named in honor of Isaac Murphy, a 19th-century African American Hall of Fame jockey.
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